Knives Out · Radiohead

141 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-140 -- 99.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
KNIVES OUT · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars: 140 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-140.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knives Out?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Knives Out hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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